- Congregation Beth El–Keser Israel
85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org
85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org
…27 Sep Yom Kippur Kol Nidre (Sanctuary & Live On-Line) September 27, 2020 6:00 pm – 6:35 pm Home Page Interior Page Outdoors in the BEKI parking lot, as weather permits. Masks will be required. In case of inclement weather, services will move indoors with a socially-distanced […] More Info…
…27 Sep Yizkor Memorial Service (Outdoor or Sanctuary & Live On-Line) September 27, 2020 10:00 am – 10:30 am Home Page Interior Page Outdoors in the BEKI parking lot, as weather permits. Masks will be required. In case of inclement weather, services will move indoors with a socially-distanced […] More Info…
…20 Sep Rosh HaShana Day II (Outside or Sanctuary – Resources On-Line) September 20, 2020 9:00 am – 11:30 am Home Page Interior Page Outdoors in the BEKI parking lot, as weather permits. Masks will be required. In case of inclement weather, services will move indoors with a socially-distanced […] More Info…
…19 Sep Minha September 19, 2020 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Home Page Interior Page Outdoors in the BEKI parking lot, as weather permits. Masks will be required. In case of inclement weather, services will move indoors with a socially-distanced […] More Info…
…Beth El-Keser Israel seeks to be a model urban institution and to promote good citizenship among its members. The community seeks to comply with the Biblical law of bal tashḥit, which prohibits destruction of the natural environment and wasting of resources. The congregation aims to put the conserve into Conservative Judaism. Building Renovations Increasing energy efficiency is a major goal of the ongoing building renovations at BEKI. Phase I reno…
…18 Sep Minha & Festival Evening Service (Outside or Sanctuary & Live On-Line) September 18, 2020 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm Home Page Interior Page Outdoors in the BEKI parking lot, as weather permits. Masks will be required. In case of inclement weather, services will move indoors with a socially-distanced […] More Info…
…as it did not inspire pogroms in the streets of New Haven or the wilds of Woodbridge, my plan was to ignore the movie. I will admit, though, that the idea of watching a movie in Aramaic appeals to me. Since Aramaic is the language of the Talmud, parts of the Hebrew Bible, and passages of the siddur, it is very much a “Jewish” language. As a cognate language to Hebrew, Aramaic is easy for the Hebrew speaker to learn. In the Jewish Theological Semin…
…up in the Twin Cities Metropolitan area in Minnesota. No seder table was too long, no home was too large, no park was too spacious for our family gatherings. A week did not go by without seeing my cousins. My cousin Nicholas Chiam Tilsen was born in 1951. He was more than ten years older than me, and I did not know him as well as did my siblings who were his contemporaries and his classmates in high school. Nick was a talented chef, and when he l…
…obvious in a moment, if they aren’t already. The haftara, from the Second Book of Kings (2 Kings 11:17 – 12:17), discusses things that come up at modern-day synagogue Board meetings — proper use of donations, the importance of keep up with repairs on a facility used for communal worship. At the time of King Yehoash, who came to power in 836 BCE, the priests had been instructed to collect and spend certain annual donations to maintain the holy Temp…
…ition of “leining for the cycle” — leining one aliya for each of the Five Books. For the novice, repetition is the key. And so I read rishon dozens of times. I also made an effort to understand the text word by word, something I do not ordinarily find accessible. Gradually I focused down within the aliya, first to a few sentences, then to a few words, and finally to one word. And so my Devar Torah is just that — a word of Torah about a word of Tor…
